Security News Update for August 9, 2024
Interpol Recovers Over $40 Mill from Biz Email Compromise Attack
INTERPOL has created a global stop-payment mechanism that it can use to recover funds. A company in Singapore thought they were paying a vendor. Instead they paid a hacker. INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments or I-GRIP was able to recover $39 million out of the $42.3 million sent. Not bad for a day’s work. Credit: Bleeping Computer
Google Creates a Way to Get Deep Fake Porn (of You) Removed From Google Search
While It is not “easy”, it certainly is doable. With deep fake porn up 550% in the last four years, unfortunately, you may (or worse, your kids may) become the victim of it. I suspect fearing regulation coming if they don’t handle this and that probably would come with some large fines, Google has created a page for you to requesting deleting it from results. This link gives you step by step instructions. You might need some help completing the request (it is sort of techie), but they say they will remove it and, if you check a particular box, they will try to keep removing similar content. Read the details at Techcrunch here.
BlackHat Speaker Shows How to Take Over an AI Bot to do Malicious Things
I guess this should not surprise anyone but a speaker at BlackHat showed how to jailbreak a Microsoft AI bot to do things like change your bank account number in an AI chat session secretly to his. This is only a start and assume it will get a LOT worse before it gets a LITTLE better. Credit: Dark Reading
Sometimes Competition Works – Starlink
Before Starlink satellite Internet there were companies like HughesNet and Viasat. The difference between the two service types is that Starlink uses tens of thousands of satellites that are close to the earth and the others use a small number of satellites that are much further away. The other difference is that the older satellite solutions were slow, expensive and had data limits. Viasat announced that it ended the last quarter with 257,000 subscribers vs. 603,000 in September 2020. The numbers for HughesNet are similar. Starlink is well over a million. That is what happens when a competitor is faster and cheaper and generally better. Credit: Cybernews
White House Pushing Cyber Rule Harmonization
Business keeps saying that there are too many cybersecurity rules from different agencies and that cyber teams are spending, 30%, 50% and even 70% of their time trying to comply. We will see what happens but Sen. Jim Lankford is cosponsoring a bill that would set up an interagency harmonization committee in the office of the National Cyber Director and make agency consultation with them MANDATORY. Not sure if the bill will have any teeth like if they didn’t consult, the rule will not go into effect, but we can hope. At least it is a start. Credit: The Record
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